Question

I’m using backbone.js for a rails project I’ve got on the side. I’m embedding templates in the rails views using something like:

<script type="text/template" id="this-is-the-id">
    ... template goes here ...

    ... the line below this is where my error's coming from ...

    <%% _(<%= aNumber %>.times(function(){ console.log('hi'); });) %>
</script>

I’m getting the error Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <. If I replace <%= aNumber %> with an integer, it works as expected. Also, if I console.log(<%%= aNumber %>), it logs the correct number.

Does anybody know how I can accomplish something like this? I know that’s kind of a sloppy way to organize my code, but this is just a quick little hack I’m putting together.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Turns out I didn’t need to wrap aNumber within the escaping <%%= and %>, and that fixed it for me.